As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings
indicated:
CONSTRUCTION OPERATION
The erection, addition, repair, renovation, demolition or
removal of any building or structure, or portion thereof, and the
excavation, filling, grading and installation of site infrastructure
on lots in connection therewith.
[Amended 3-13-2023 by Ord. No. 2023-02]
CONSUMER FIREWORKS
Any combustible or explosive composition or any substance
or combination of substances which is intended to produce visible
or audible effects by combustion, is suitable for use by the public,
complies with the construction, performance, composition and labeling
requirements promulgated by the Consumer Products Safety Commission
in 16 CFR (relating to commercial practices) or any successor regulation
and complies with the provisions for "consumer fireworks" as defined
in APA 87-1 or any successor standard, the sale, possession and use
of which shall be permitted throughout this Commonwealth. The term
does not include devices such as "ground and handheld sparkling devices,"
"novelties" or "toy caps" in APA 87-1 or any successor standard, the
sale, possession and use of which shall be permitted at all times
throughout this Commonwealth.
[Added 8-27-2018 by Ord.
No. 2018-07]
DEPARTMENT
Any department, agency or authority of Lower Allen Township.
EMERGENCY
Any occurrence or set of circumstances involving actual or
imminent physical trauma or property damage.
EMERGENCY VEHICLE
A motor vehicle used in response to a public calamity or
to protect persons or property from an imminent exposure to danger.
EMERGENCY WORK
Work made necessary to restore property to a safe condition
following a public calamity, work to restore public utilities or work
required to protect persons or property from an imminent exposure
to danger.
MOTOR VEHICLE
The same as defined in the Pennsylvania Motor Vehicle Code.
NOISE
Any sound which is unwanted or which causes an adverse psychological
or physiological effect on human beings.
NOISE DISTURBANCE
Sound which:
(1)Â
Disrupts or injures the comfort, repose, health, hearing, peace
or safety of persons;
(2)Â
Annoys, disturbs or perturbs a reasonable person with normal
sensitivities;
(3)Â
Endangers or injures personal or real property.
PERSONS
Any individual, association, partnership or corporation,
user, owner or operator and includes any officer, employee, department,
agency or instrument of a state or any political subdivision of a
state. Whenever used in any clause prescribing and imposing a penalty,
"person" includes the individual members, partners, officers and managers
or any of them of partnerships and associations, and as for corporations,
the officers and managers thereof or any of them and, in their absence,
the shareholders.
PLAINLY AUDIBLE NOISE
Any noise for which the information content of that noise
is unambiguously communicated to the listener, such as but not limited
to understandable spoken speech and comprehensible musical rhythms.
POWERED MODEL VEHICLES
Any powered vehicles, either airborne, waterborne or landborne,
which are designed not to carry persons or property, such as but not
limited to model airplanes, boats, cars and rockets, and which can
be propelled by mechanical means.
PROPERTY BOUNDARY
An imaginary line exterior to any enclosed structure, at
the ground surface, which separates the real property owned, rented
or leased by one person from that owned, rented or leased by another
person, and its vertical extension.
PUBLIC RIGHT-OF-WAY
Any street, avenue, boulevard, highway, sidewalk, alley or
similar place which is owned or controlled by a governmental entity.
PUBLIC SPACE
Any real property or structures thereon which are owned or
controlled by a governmental entity.
REAL PROPERTY
All land, whether publicly or privately owned, whether improved
or not improved, with or without structures, exclusive of any areas
devoted to public rights-of-way.
SOUND
An oscillation in pressure, particle displacement, particle
velocity or other physical parameter, in a medium with internal forces
that cause compression and rarefaction of that medium or the superposition
of such propagated oscillation which evokes an auditory sensation.
The description of sound may include any characteristics of such sound,
including duration, intensity and frequency.
SPECIAL EVENTS
A ticketed or unticketed event held by an establishment licensed
by the Liquor Control Board, including any event outside the normal
scope of entertainment that does not require an admission fee.
ZONING DISTRICTS
The land use districts designated in Chapter
220, Zoning, of 1995, as amended from time to time.